Narcosis

Only the creators, but that didn't affect the website at all. The arrests were actually a part of a large scale, international display made by US goverment to "teach these nasty pirates a lesson". And they did learned a lesson. Now we have TPB servers all over the globe. If Japan has so much budget "deposits" to waste, they should rather fund the developers and help them personally TL and localize their works for oversea market, which would cut the costs tremendously and make both anime and manga a lot more available and affordable to everyone around the globe. They should work to correct their absurd laws which restrict freedom of speech and make artists go out of business. They should try to fix the issues and find ways to ease the pression and oversaturation within the market. They should work on more efficient and easier ways to export japanese works easily outside Japan. Have they even tried any of that? No, because they don't care at all - all they care about is trying to lick A/M industry's asses, just so the current electorate can carry over to the next tenure.

They can't take down Nyaa, simply because Nyaa doesn't host the files - they are just a tracker. If anything, they can only request for a complete removal of all the desired "illegal" torrents from their DB, that's it. And guess what? It will take them time, if anything just to prepare a list and it will cost a lot of money. Any intelligent person knows that in overall, it's unworthy to even try and pursue such operations; when a single site falls, two, three new ones appear after it. They won't remove the sources either - those files will still exist and people will find new ways to share them. Those old pricks running japanese gov do not even know how p2p networks work, otherwise they wouldn't even try to waste their taxpayer's money on such a worthless operation.

I usually crap out on the easiest and least "dangerous" parts. Not the sliders, interescting notes or anything similiar which could prove to be difficult. Just failing to get a note on time is enough. Perhaps, it's because I'm playing on a rather small 4,3" screen. It's a curse, I tell you. I was already few times a bit from FC'ing it and accidentally got a bad note at the very few last of the notes, or releasing the slider untimely. I should finally manage it, though. Perhaps in the evening. If I recall correctly, so far I've used 3 or 4 gems just for a bit of an advantage. I will most likely obtain that UR Honoka in the evening, but I'd rather like to remain within 4k as well, otherwise it would preety much become a waste of resources.

Those things are called moral and societal standards. They differ from community to community, but a lot of values are upheld universally, all around the globe. Got a problem with that opinion of mine? Feel free to discuss, for all I care. I am an adult, playing adult games and all's fine with the world. In comparision to some of the earlier examples, I am keeping it under my own roof, instead of risking public embarassment and making other people around me uncomfortable, as well. Are you a huge fan of LoS games? If so, I am terribly sorry I offended your allmighty personal preferences. PS. Keep your advices to yourself, okay? I got some for you, though: Have a nice day.

More like "this content is not available in your country" thing, hm?

Japanese goverment facing financial problems? Check. Japanese goverment finally acknowledging A/M industry as a serious business? Check. Japanese goverment trying to find new and reliable sources of income? Check. They aren't first who tried to control the internet. Little they know it's as futile, as trying to make our world a "better world" for everyone. History shows that any of such endeavours ended preety abruptly. If anything, the mess caused by their greed to fully monetize on a "virtual" monopoly they're trying to force through might only create a massive backlash, with people intentionally boycotting japanese shit to teach them a lesson. I doubt western communities have to worry about anything; japanese are so old fashioned and silly when it comes to tilting at windmills, soon enough they will start wondering whether it was really worth it; the costs of this campaign will quickly outweigh any potential profits.

It happens either in the very end, or somewhere in the middle; not on those "harder" parts, you'd typically think of being the main reason for Combo breakers - it just happens randomly on some least expecting note, and it's not even my device being uncalibrated, either. It just happens, that's why I'm saying this song is cursed. I never had so many issues on getting a FC, even the hardest songs seem like nothing compared to this nightmare.

I swear, Love marginal makes me cry.

Interesting idea. Unfortunately, S;G does not interest me, so I'll pass this time. I'd join regardless, but I'm already way too swamped with my own art.

It's not a childish taste; Japanese gamers are typically older than those on west, but they are simply immature, when it comes to games. I cringe every time when I see pics full of "adult" people, queuing in line just to take a peek under a skirt of some fictional character made out of cardboard. I quite understand their different mentality "when you're having fun, you are supposed to have fun, age doesn't matter", but there are some things people can do, and some things that shouldn't be done at all. Tho, most of those guys are already striked out as self-respectable members of society, so I wouldn't be surprised they don't care anymore. Lump of Sugar is awful, like most similiar studios currently churning out cheap moege.

You can't fix bad writing.

http://pixelpacas.com/sakura-spirit-may-have-opened-the-gates-for-eroge-on-steam/ I doubt Steam will ever become fully open towards games featuring explicit sexual content, not to even mention things like DLSite; on the oher hand we may never know what kind of future Valve plans for Steam, since it's currently undergoing massive changes. If they are trully planning to make it a fully open, self-publishing platform under Valve's guidance, we might see some of the "milder" eroge titles up in the near future. I have to admit it's really amusing that a small title like SS, which includes typical ecchi content managed to garner so much atention and publicity, just because it got published through Steam, whilst other similiar games never managed to do that.

Japan does not condone anything. That's the difference. Last ruling banned child pornography. It didn't banned lolicon, it didn't banned shotacon. It didn't banned hentai, whether it would be games, light novels, anime or manga. It seems a lot of people still do not understand the difference. On the other hand, "cartoon porn" involving minors is illegal in a lot of states of NA; it is completely illegal in Great Britain and Canada. This includes all of hentai cases, lolicon and shotacon as well. You even go to jail, if proven guilty; in most cases it ends with ridiculous fines and social branding to fend off any potential troublemakers.

No, just... no. Three more tries and all stupid fails. I quit.

Overhyped game with nothing else except graphics, which tries to be a hollywood movie. I've already seen enough gameplay previews to know where is this going; expect ten games in the franchise over the next 5 years. I guess all the marvelous concept art and designs went to waste.

Don't look at me. I'm already busy enough with my own projects.

People like these scare me. Seems like the event song is cursed for me. Still no FC, I always get some sort of a single stupid mistake in every single playthrough.

Over the age of consent, of course. Heheh, Japan. There's no better way to justify f*cking lolis.

We should form a club.