Darklord Rooke

There seems to be a similar theme to your answers, but for the life of me I can’t figure out what it is. I think you’re being a little too subtle...

Jesus Christ that translation blows. They couldn't get it to blow any harder even with an automatic blowing machine set on 'blow your lungs out'. I ran Translation Aggregator with the lines RusAnon pasted, and I'm getting a more complete picture from the unedited machine translation, so good job whoever did those lines. Kudos to RusAnon for pasting that btw. If I sound bitter it's because I am. I really wish more VN/RPG hybrids would get translated (semi-decently.) Well... RPGs NOT named 'Beat Blades'. Eh, c'est la vie.

One of the hallmarks of a military push-up. Military push-ups have your elbows against your side, and your feet close together, this builds muscle much more effectively. Standard push-ups have the elbows flailing around (although I haven't seen a person do it at right angles before 0.0,) and feet opened wide up. Looks like she's got her feet in a good position.

Official - Tokyo Babel, Seinarukana, Gahkthun, FanTl - Rance 6, Rance 5D, Princess Maker 5, Tokeijikake no Ley Line looks pretty sweet from the synopsis.

Unless you've been sick or (suspiciously) indisposed, you may have realised that reddit was doing a census. Well, the results are in (with over 500 participants, you sad, sad individuals) and you can go over the results in full on the thread below. If you'd rather a short summary, I'll provide that for you guys here. https://www.reddit.com/r/visualnovels/comments/3ogp56/rvisualnovels_census_results/ Average age - 22ish. Not surprising that VNs are a young people's medium. A nasty man would tie 'age' with the need for 'pictures' and conclude something rather inappropriate, but that's not me :3 Gender breakdown - 90% males. Again not surprising, Reddit is a young man thing. Females consisted of 6% of respondents, at least half of which were also males. First VN - The vast majority experienced Katawa Shoujo first, with Fate/Stay Night and Ace Attorney a distant second and third. A cynical man would link Katawa Shoujo's tendency to be experienced first with the medium's low participation rate Path into Otakudom - Anime ranked highest, followed by vid games and manga. Don't ask me what this means, whether it's the Japanese medium you experienced first, the one which had the most influence over you, or something completely different is something I can't be bothered interpreting. I'll just press my lips together tightly and make thoughtful noises. The oldest VN you have read - Tsukihime is the oldest VN most people have read, followed by Phoenix Wright and Muv Luv, because they're mostly youngsters and will never experience the glory of 90s VNs. I grieve for them. Other VN communities you visit - Steam, VN discord (NFI), 4chan /vg, Fuwa, 4chan /jp. It should be noted that Fuwa has the largest number of lurkers, because we're all lazy here. Let's see... what else is interesting: Most important VN attributes - Story came in top, followed by writing then visuals. This means there's an awful lot of liars who took the Reddit survey. Favourite kind of dere - Dan was 1st, Kuu 2nd, Tsun third, Bambi didn't rate and I hate you all for it. Best translation - Grisaia was first, daylight 2nd and third. Favourite Western Publisher - Sekai was 1st, MG 2nd, JAST third. This is where Dovac sits in front of his monitor laughing at all the guys constantly shitting on him, then starts banging his desk with his fist, then pointing, then more fist banging, at which point he clutches his heart and tips off his chair onto the floor. A thumb will then catapult up into eyesight from below the desk giving an enthusiastic thumbs up, before slowly sinking down amidst gurgles and giggles. And there's a bunch of other stuff you can find by reading the thread.

I'm a big fan of episodes also, the future of Visual Novels is episodic content imo. The price point is one of the biggest obstacles to decent sales, along with accessibility (otherwise known as most 'reader's' don't do their reading on a computer.)

I should probably point out that 'Likes' are still anonymous if you're signed out of the forums. It's not a big deal, you can identify who's fist-bumping whom by signing in but I just thought I'd mention it.

It's because your theme is green... @Tay: It's not just Tiag's account.

I've apparently used up my quota of likes today, I'll need to revisit this thread tomorrow. Voices are incredibly expensive, $40 is out of the price range most people are willing to spend on VNs, some people (unknown how many) don't care about voices, the half-price offer might be a way to entice those looking for a good read (and who don't care about voices) to splurge. $20 is about the price of a book, which seems more reasonable when people are looking to buy a VN. Take me, for example. I never listen to voices when I play a VN, I read quickly and waiting for the lines to be voiced is annoying, especially when the voices are in another language and you can't pick up a lot of the verbal cues. So, 40 US dollars is about 55 Aus dollars, and being a book nerd I have alternative sources of entertainment, thus the VN had better be DAMN good for me to buy. At 20 US dollars on the other hand, well... I may impulse buy that one day, or I'll buy it if I'm curious. The lack of voices doesn't impact me. I'm pretty happy with the decision by Sekai, I don't know why people are mocking it. Quite a few of the most owned VNs on Steam aren't voiced btw, so not everybody considers it a 'must have' feature. EDIT REASONS - Fiddling with font.

Ugh this is going to make Tay happy, and that means he's going to feel the urge to party like it's 1999... an act that caused much mayhem and rambunctiousness if I recall correctly. Sweet job Ren&BinaryFail&Ren's_brother. Also, good to see you around

Solipsism.

Sleep easy, Nay. Also, you type pretty legibly for a drunk man. When SB gets plastered it's like he writes in some hellish form of Latin.

We are all sympathetic people here.....

Fuwafabulous theme - change content colour to 'strawberry'. This disguises it so you only have to deal with the number... and a hideous colour decorating the page.

That is a mess. Hope that'll get fixed, the community blog is one of my favourite features on this forum.

Because it was the cause of half the world's ills... AND it gave people cancer.

Yay! The default theme is back :3

  Partly due to comparative time constraints - packing a story into a 2 hour time frame means a limited time for characters to meander around. There'd be a greater percentage of American television shows that pass this test when compared to American films, for example. Of course it indicates a problem with Hollywood, but you can't really use the test to compare two different media.

I loved the first Witcher :3 Can't play the latest installment yet, but by gum I will. I need to find a way to get my grubby paws on a PS4, though.

True Love

It doesn't surprise me either, but for completely different reasons.

It's probably because Japan never really used shields, most likely due to their limited exposure to different cultures. Samurai either used a bow or their 2 handed katana/spear/polearms/tachi whatever. So, because anime is a product of Japan, maybe they just don't get how useful they were/are *shrugs* Or maybe I'm well off base, who knows

Lego is a poor man's Meccano.

The weight of shields varied. They could be as heavy as 20lbs, or as light as 6, it depends on the time and the country. And plate armour wasn't as heavy as people thought, in fact modern military gear may be heavier. The reason people wore armour when they could afford it is it was almost impenetrable, so make no mistake the trade off with agility is well worth it. And then they'd have a 2-handed long sword, so now you're halfway impenetrable AND have an advantage in reach. And no, the swords were pretty light, longer than a katana while being about the same weight (due to the katana's wedge), double sided, and have a nasty point. Of course, this sort of combat isn't really flashy to the audience (no sarcasm here, it's pretty boring.)