Narcosis

TPP is just another take to ressurect SOPA and that wasn't new, either; it's been like that for ages. Lobbyist parties trying, failing and re-enacting their projects under different names. Luckily, not everyone is as stupid as they think we are.

Wow, this kind of came out of the blue. It's sad to see them closing their business; Elf has been known as one of the father companies of the eroge industry and they preety much influenced the modern visual novels, whilst games like Doukyuusei, Kakyuusei, Dragon Knight and YUNO becoming cult classics. I have to admit Elf has been in a constant decline over the past couple years and their latest games couldn't really keep up in terms of quality with the rest of the market. Hopefully the team members will continue off elsewhere, or even form a new studio. I'd love to see more games from them that would keep with their past spirit, but use everything the modern industry has to offer.

TPP might actually kill off the whole doujin industry, if Japan won't speak against it.

Preety much what Deep Blue wrote. A lot of japanese voice actors usually work under brands and it might be either their strict policy or the sole fact they don't want to be associated with 18+ industry; it's not like it could really impact their careers, since everyone knows they're working as VA's for eroge companies, but it's an expression of business courtesy. You simply don't talk about these things as a mainstream voice actor, neither mix those two worlds.

TIME TO LEARN JAPANESE

Thanks for making my backlog even bigger.

Yet another desperate attempt of the dinosaur lobbyists to maintain their crumbling status quo. This will actually never get through, at least not fully. And even if it does, the outrage it causes afterwards will force them to change it preety soon.

Fuwaception. Just what we needed.

Literally zero. If you say you're a visual novel enthusiast, who the fuck has any say in the matter? You can be a Shoot 'em Up fan without having ever finished one. Besides the fact of being a big fat liar without knowledge to support one's beliefs, yes.

None VN's I'd like to read will never get an english translation, but I'm slowly tackling japanese myself, so it's not a biggie anymore.

B-but I actually liked my walls of Tay...

Sorry, but message boards nowadays aren't as useful as they were 10 years ago, nor are they revelant. Vast majority of sites ended up as a space for group circlejerking, with little to no actual content and discussion; it's the kind of age we're living in.

IT'S HAPPENING (again)

Hard to call those people visual novel players, to be honest. Playing with an RC plane doesn't make you a pilot, neither holding a rifle makes you a sniper. With that kind of attitude, it's hard to treat the results as firm; majority of so called "vn players" usually do not even scratch the surface and it's kind of... sad.

Guess I won't be able to pass on this event, either. Hopefully, the competition won't be as fierce as it was a while ago. Wait... was I planning to retire?

I'm not surprised people have such shit tastes regarding vn's. I grieve for our western community.

Nekoyasha included all the walkthroughs from the original version in the english TL; if you don't have them, you propably didn't installed them with the patch. If you don't have it, you can grab a copy from my server. It covers nearly everything, from routes to racing tricks and whatever else not covered in there, can be found on the TL wiki's website.

YES PLS It's already enough I'm forced to use W8.1 at work.

Some progress on a retro c64 wallpaper, I've been working on lately: I should finish it this weekend

On the bright side: I'm in love already.

Why does everything look like W8

>Installing VS12 at work, worriedly decide to check on SIF >No Wifi available, use expensive mobile instead >Login twenty minutes before the event ends, 5k ranking, PANIC >Play an EXP song furiously, see how little it helped >Panic more >Rush a couple songs, use another loveca, heart attack >End up around 3800 ranking, seconds before update notice

Definately one of them. Ask who has the strongest smile team I've ever seen ingame