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I'm probably repeating someone's opinion, but: I've heard a psychologist say that adolescence is truly our "golden years". When our brains function to the fullest and we have the potential to enjoy lots. Apart from obvious coming of age stories, in Japanese media it's reasonable to enshrine adolescence. It's not immature, it's just the way it is. Those years marked us, and made us what we are now (if you're 30-something like me). As such, fits of nostalgia aren't unheard of, where you try to reproduce those times. With the music, the things you did, etc. The same psychologist said that most of us shift tastes with time, but I don't agree that much. I keep doing what I've always done, plus some newer hobbies. Does that make me childish? I don't know. Are the hobbies childish in themselves? You have the final word. A Magic: the Gathering card carries a quote that goes, "life is too short to not do what you love". So, it all comes down to if you still enjoy it or not. Doing the things you like will have a positive impact on your life, indeed. More than any pseudo-psychology mumbo jumbo advise. That's about the "enshrining adolescence" part, but there's the fact that even though anime shows are more commonly starred by high school students, not all of them are slice of life. Commonly there's another kind of plot, ranging from the serious to the silly. Then it all comes down to the quality of the plot, more than the characters' age. Of course, not every anime is a masterpiece, but the same can be said about Hollywood movies, and no one is accusing them of immatureness. I've read tymmur's previous post, where he talks about being able to enjoy things in order to be happy. There's a mental condition called "anhedonia", associated with depression and schizophrenia, and boy, is it sinister. It's the inability to feel pleasure, or more generally, satisfaction. This is fucked up, so please consider how lucky we are to enjoy something like Japanese media that brings us joy and entertainment, even if it's considered the stupidest thing under the Sun.

Get acquainted with the awesome world of virtual machines then.

Team Fujibayashi, for great justice.

This covers not one but a couple of dates, has some actual uncensored porn, to spice the date up, it's horror, and it's cheap: http://store.steampowered.com/app/585890/

A recently translated, full-blown moege is Dal Segno... a bit too moege for me, at the moment (I've tried it but I can't really recommend it for now). Maybe you'll like it though, because it's set in summer, and terribly bubbly and cutesy.

Stick to OELVNs, thus you'll get fluent English.

This might be the majority, indeed, but there are some genuine VN readers who don't buy into the H scenes' typical... cringe. I either read them with a poker face or skip them if they're really bad. I bought Miagete Goran on Steam because the price was reasonable, I wouldn't miss the H (though Konosora's seemed fine), and everyone praised it. It's a lil' bit more boring than Konosora, but I think I'll manage to read it completely, I've read worse.

I was going to reply with "best tsundere is dead tsundere". But if you put Kurisu and Kyou there (Kyou, though, is more of a tomboy, more or less) I can only choose them. Komomo would round up the lineup.

There are webcomics considered bad that are better than Fault. They have furries and are free. All improvements.

If anything, you harm your brain. Naturally, I knows the hacker!!

MoeNovel or Sekai Project?

If this world is controlled by Homuhomu, all we have to do is pray to her this comes out OK. Maybe bribe her with some Madoka doujins.

Forums are dying, and it's also the eventual fate of Fuwa. But it happens with stars, cultures, and the whole Universe, too. Damn Kyubei.

Dragons of Autumn Twilight Love

I have heard about the Baltic Anomaly, but I haven't checked this video up, so you try it for me.

The kanji for "cheap" ("yasui"), is an "onna" ("woman") kanji under a... ugh... I don't know. But I swear it's the woman kanji.

I'm curious about this Ponkotsu Akuma VN, may give it a try, depends on the price because I've got several to choose from. This time 18+ because it actually seems to have sex that interests me.

Well it goes like this: at the turn of the millennium the most widespread processors were 16-bit. The software for those you can run in a 32-bit system. If your main system is 64-bit, you NEED to use a 32-bit system on a virtual machine, because your system doesn't natively run 16-bit. For example, I've got some old magazine CDs meant for Windows 9X that I can only run in 32-bit Win 2008 Server (that's because it's the most readily system I've got). Those are from 22 years old and up. Is the trip down memory lane exciting? Well, NO. It feels cringey, but it's a good testimony to how tech improves dramatically over time. I may cringe about shareware programs from 20 years ago, but I wouldn't shun old animes and VNs because, I was there and know how that art is. That said, they'd still look dated, even if a bit romantic. It's like reviewing old chat sessions from your past self -it's true you didn't know better, but it's also cringey how silly you were and how small your world was.

Well, even if HuniePop clones sell well, you've got to give some incentive to get this specific game. It's fast food for Youtubers, covering this type of game. EDIT: There's more Sayori exploitation incoming: https://vndb.org/v20526

Give it some thought, without a credit card, how could they charge you the cost of the game? I suppose they could use Paypal, but there are lots of sites that demand credit card instead of Paypal. And they're also legit. For example, the Apple Store.

Well, most of the time they want to design a cute character. What constitutes "cute" shifts over time, and each era has its own ideas about it. What's true is that a given time, most designers abide by that time's rules.

More than that, I guess if we spent a time playing games from the 90s we would see that back then the scene was completely different... more silly erotic games with no polish at all (cough cough Cobra Mission), very few plot-driven games (fewer than now), more boring simulators overall, and the H scenes more vanilla and oriented to classic hentai, without the fetishes now present... the community was effectively smaller.

VNs don't age well in my opinion, because engines are progressively better and so are ideas, concepts, tropes and stories overall. Maybe art too. 90's art was very particular and easily recognisable. I guess the guidelines for designing characters back then where tighter. So, you can't really compare a 2016 VN to a 1996 one, even if the step is 20 years, and the tech difference is obvious, but that's just the thing when digging old VNs, VN history is huge, man. For the lulz, consider that when I plugged or unplugged the earphones to the PC, "Evangelion Girlfriend of Steel" (late 90s) crashed XD

Unfortunately they make what sells... I lolled hard when I got to know that Valve is preparing its own digital card game, aka "Artifacts". Card games are popular, and so are, within their niche, Huniepop clones. About the requirements... I mean, Core 2 Duo? That could have been a hurdle 10 years ago.

Alissia Dragoon is a beat'em up arcade for the Genesis, though I never managed to finish it, the game is pretty difficult. The eponymous protagonist is a girl bent on vengeance. Better get this as an ISO, since I sold the cartridge not long ago and it sells for considerable sums.