Mr Poltroon

That is indeed somewhat depressing. More content is always interesting. Moar moar! Much like Decay I don't really see much changing. I remember this exact sort of "the forums are in decline" shizzle every time Tay goes on hiatus. Much like everyone suggests we got more admins every time that happens. I'll participate in everything I think is interesting, and that just so happens to include your games, but you shouldn't expect every member to feel the same. Below there's a somewhat not pretty and happy view of the forums that may be wildly inaccurate because I don't want to bother thinking about the 600th "Nothing's happening/Tay isn't here/The site is dying" thread I partake in: Good idea. It can essentially be said that most people don't know what purpose the LC serves, including the LC members themselves, so just do your own thing.

Slow and steady wins the race.

I'd comment on the helpfulness or how interesting this blog post is, but I'm more interested in finding a bowl of ojiya myself. I might have to scour the country for it, and it's still easier than scouring an American state.

Why yes I am. I am also a Grisaia bum. And I'll bash anyone who dislikes the stuff I like; like any good internet denizen. Were you expecting anything else? I exterminate inferior vermin, preferably, as condescendingly as possible. Solidbatman's review had more than enough fuel for me to throw a couple of lit matches at it. If it's controversial I might just want to stick my foot in it and enliven the fire. Please continue to expect nothing but insults and bashing from me. I might come to surprise you when I have a fever and say worthwhile things. But I stand by my statements. I have a knack for enjoying average-bad stuff. Why not brag about it. And because I'm never off-topic : I don't actually expect them to pull Rewrite off as a good adaptation. Mostly because I can't even picture how they could possibly adapt more than one route unless they do each and every one of them by restarting over. And that takes time I don't think will exist.

Yes. That's the problem. If I eat pizza every day, sure. But I don't eat pizza everyday. I eat it every week. You, on the other hand, eat it 24 times a day. No wonder you'd get sick of it. Even if I had watched as much anime as you, my pace is entirely different, so I wouldn't get sick of them. I watch in bursts. Usually not too much at any one time. It's not the amount of anime total, it's the amount of anime at a time that helps decide whether something gets stale. You'd watch 7 different average anime a week. I'd watch one. After a year you get sick. I don't. Presumably, the point you're trying to make is that I'll get sick "eventually", but since your pace is different, your testimony is unreliable, and I have no further evidence to lead me to the conclusion that I'll eventually get sick of it.

Fool! I'm absolutely sure I enjoy myself much more than you do (Disclaimer: As in, I can enjoy more things than you. I can enjoy the bad things. Etc. etc.). And that's all because I have low standards. Now this is living the good life. You should try it, sometime. That's the reason why I'm almost positive I'll like this Rewrite adaptation. Adaptations in particular are really hard to ruin for me unless they don't actually animate anything from the original material.

If you were to lower yourself to my standard, then all Key VN adaptations were good.

Quite the persecution complex we have here. Change my sign-up preferences to "Kill Shikomizue at some point" as well. As the gentleman I am, this way I shall justify the persecution complex and he will not look nearly as paranoid.

I'm all out of likes. I wish a good recovery.

I love the Oxford comma. And that is just one more reason why I constantly mess up when writing in Portuguese.

This is the second anime adaptation announcement this month for a VN I've played. Wow. Yay. Let's see how good/bad they'll make them. I'll watch anything.

Yes! Best image! http://i.imgur.com/R3bGuu7.jpg GET!

Here's mine. Surprisingly, it is not the default, nor is it a chicken!

*Metaphorical Kick*

Rook - Admittedly, through everything I said, there are indeed a lot of ellipsis in fan translations. The kind you can see don't bother me much (although ellipsis have 3 dots, there's no need to use more than one ellipsis to indicate a pause. 3 dots are enough. Not 6. Not 4. Not 12. Japan loves using more than three.), for instance, three dots at the start of a sentence is so incredibly normal and usual in a VN I've learnt to process them as some kind of pause before speaking (or in this case, monologuing, because he seems to be suffering from brain lapses on a regular basis). Of course, it doesn't make much sense to have a dialogue of "..." followed by more ellipsis, but in context it just means he had no reply and instead transitioned to thinking/monologue. Personally, ellipsis in a monologue are nigh on useless unless you're in the middle of rationalising or making deductions. That's what I figure happens in the second set of ellipsis that starts a sentence. Indeed, if you want to fix it in English, the ellipsis itself isn't the problem, but its positioning. Just move the ellipsis to the end of the previous sentence and it's much less offensive. As for that mammoth of a dash, it indicates his thoughts were interrupted, or trailed off (because Japan does it differently). Presumably the writer was suffering from cramps and the "-" became a "---------". Although this is all mostly irrelevant in the context of this blog post. While there are lots of ellipsis, if used correctly they aren't a problem. Darbury has the problem of attempting to match the voice (which I personally consider an important factor. I don't know Japanese, but it throws me out of the flow when a complicated Japanese sentence magically transmutes into a one word reply; or when the -kun's accidentally dress up as -san's) to the textbox. As it is dialogue, I think this shouldn't have become a problem, but apparently there were too many ellipsis. Logically one doesn't speak like the hyperbolic example we were given, so how do sentences end up like this? "So … at times … the script reads … like this." I'd say "Don't base yourself on the Japanese use of ellipsis, but feel free to follow dialogue pauses in speech."

Sufficiently so.

On the context of ellipsis (and in an attempt to spare my life for yet another day), I've glanced through a couple of Portuguese novels, and particularly direct speech, ellipsis are indeed fairly common. I have incredibly limited knowledge about novels, because, contrary to expectations, I don't often read, if ever. But as far as I know, dialogue doesn't appear too often (or in other words, there's much more narration that draws it out) in novels, and I'd like to say that's the reason there's such a lack of ellipsis. When a person speaks, certainly they make pauses, a novel could cut a piece of dialogue in the middle, fit a bit of narration as the pause and continue. "I've got something to tell you" John said solemnly, and after taking a deep breath he added "your daughter has gone missing." I don't know the proper structure in English, I don't even know it in Portuguese properly, but I think what's above is theoretically possible...? Actual quote from Portuguese showcasing what I mean: In short, VN's are mostly comprised of dialogue. They are also usually limited to a simple dialogue box. Under these circumstances one is constricted on the amount they can fit in the box, and each box can be only used for dialogue or can only be used for narration, not both. I'd say using ellipsis to showcase the pauses in speech is really the only available option. Overall it will seem like a huge amount of ellipsis, but I'll blame that on the huge amount of dialogue. VN's who write on top of the screen (http://i.ytimg.com/vi/y26b29CaMe0/maxresdefault.jpg) should theoretically suffer less from this, but since they're still voiced, and they end up getting ports to a console with the smaller box system ( http://i.ytimg.com/vi/5k5wpzVl2qY/maxresdefault.jpg), they're still made with that in mind and little to no dialogue/narration mingling. Of course, ellipsis like these should still freeze in hell: ..............I don't know...........maybe it was my father.......?

I see no reason not to use this as advice for any potential instances I feel inclined to... eh... pretend I'm an editor? Nevertheless, I can wallow in others' misery and learn simultaneously. How can this not be a wonderful blog post! "But if you don’t use the Oxford comma, you deserve to die alone." I redirect you to this wonderful translation team with which, I'm sure, you have a great deal in common: http://theoxfordcommaissuperiorsubs.com/ It is highly recommended you read the acutely enlightening blog posts you will find within, relative to the Oxford Comma's Superiority. You will finish an erudite man.

*hype hype* Of course, there's always a careful choice of words to consider. For instance, "soon" relatively to the time it takes for the Solar System to rotate around the centre of the Milky Way would only be about a couple million years.

This is very very interesting! Here I go!

Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. This gets me excited! Oh yes it does!

The least searched a character is, more likely it'll take a while to guess it, even if it's in the database. The only one of mine it tried to guess but wasn't in the database was Coco from Katahane. (...I think)

Pretty much any of the characters I try are there in the database, it's just a bit harder for it to guess those ones because hardly any people choose them, and the correct set of questions aren't set in stone.